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1 Kings 16:7

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and against his house: Exodus 20:5

with the work: Psalms 115:4; Isaiah 2:8, Isaiah 44:9-20

because he killed him: This the Vulgate understands of Jehu the prophet; some think Baasha is intended; others Nadab the son of Jeroboam; and others Jeroboam, whom Baasha destroyed in his posterity by cruelly murdering them all. 1 Kings 14:14, 1 Kings 15:27-29; 2 Kings 10:30-31; Isaiah 10:6-7; Hosea 1:4; Acts 2:23, Acts 4:27-28

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